Physics Safety Week 2006 Physics Safety Week took place during the week of February 2nd, 2026, with a focus on the theme of Ergonomics. LBNL ergonomics subject matter experts provided ergonomics evaluations across various office suites and labs. Over 40 …
Hitoshi Murayama, winner of APS Lilienfeld Prize, on understanding the universe Murayama is the recipient of the 2026 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, which annually recognizes a scientist for outstanding contributions to physics and exceptional skills in lecturing to diverse audiences. …
Solving a Mystery in Dark Matter Detectors Could Improve Quantum Computers Unexplained bursts of energy have hindered certain dark matter detectors — and might also factor into how superconducting qubits perform. Scientists on the TESSERACT dark matter experiment traced some …
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Dan Carney named one of Moore Foundation's 2025 Experimental Physics Investigators Dan Carney, a physicist in Berkeley Lab's Physics Division, has been named a Moore Foundation 2025 Experimental Physics Investigator, joining a cohort of 22 distinguished mid-career researchers who will …
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Berkeley Lab hosts 2025 DESI Summer Collaboration Meeting Over 175 researchers from around the world attended the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) 2025 Summer Collaboration Meeting at Berkeley Lab on July 8-11. …
Berkeley Lab Engineer designs hardware for the moon’s unforgiving environment Imagine survival in an environment of extremes: during the daytime, which is 14 Earth days long, temperatures climb to 127°C (260°F) while the relentless sun beats down with no cover. …
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Voices from the past get an AI assist Members of the IRENE project have recently used ChatGPT to analyse an 1800s sound recording, unlocking a new AI data analysis technique that could transform their research to uncover the sounds and …
DESI Collaboration to Receive2026 Berkeley Prize The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration will receive the 2026 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. Awarded annually since 2011 by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and …
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Magnets Could Unlock a New Way to Detect Gravitational Waves A team of researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley has discovered a new way to search for gravitational waves that opens the door to building detectors that are deeply …
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LZ's record-setting limits on dark matter interaction published in PRL The LZ experiment’s record-setting limits on dark matter interactions, first announced last year, have now been published in Physical Review Letters (PRL). …
